i/us -- The July 98 Salon Page 9


    Each frame of the animation will be different. For the "Who We Are animation", I've imported an image called Two Women from the Clipart Gallery -- Photographs -- People folder. I converted the image to bitmap (Arrange -- Create Bitmap Copy) 24-bit color, 300 dpi. (We'll let Xara reduce the colors and reduce the dpi to screen resolution -- 96dpi.) I positioned the 25 x 75 pixel rectangle on top of the lady on the left, and from the Arrange menu, I selected Combine Shapes -- Intersect Shapes to crop the image. Once the image is converted to bitmap, I can color it with the line and fill colors. The Fill color (left mouse button) affects the lighter colors, while the line color (right mouse button) affects the darker colors. I've changed the colors for every frame.

    The color and font for the question mark changes in each frame. I've made the question mark in the first frame very light since it (and all the other elements in frame one) will repeat in every other frame. I copied all 14 dots in the "e.Mail Us" animation to each frame. Then I eliminated all but one for the first frame, all but two in the second frame, etc. I also altered the colors as you will see in a moment.

    The "What We Do" animation is a kind of VU meter affair, like you find on tape recorders that represent the volume. It expands up and down and changes colors in each frame to co-ordinate with the colors on the question mark and photograph.

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